Public sector banks (PSBs) are planning to tighten the corporate lending norms for loans above Rs 250 crore and transfer such loans under the consortium of banks for monitoring, discouraging multiple banking arrangements.

The market breadth was in favour of the advances with 957 stocks advancing while 668 declined and 383 remained unchanged. On the other hand, in the BSE, 1176 stocks advanced and 888 declined and 108 remained unchanged.

In a FIR filed with BS&FC, two LoUs were issued by PNB employees Gokulnath Shetty and Hemant Kharat, who were also named in the complaint filed against Nirav Modi’s companies, to Chandri Papers and Allied Products worth Rs 9,000 crore.

Speaking publicly for the first time on the Rs 13,600-crore fraud that broke out at Punjab National Bank, Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel today blamed "deep fissure in the landscape of banking regulatory terrain" that allowed the scam to take place.

The market breadth was in favour of the declines with 755 stocks advancing while 940 declined and 324 remained unchanged. On the other hand, in the BSE, 1137 stocks advanced and 1467 declined and 153 remained unchanged.

Fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi obtained his first fraudulent guarantee from PNB's Brady House branch in Mumbai on March 10, 2011 and managed to get 1,212 more such guarantees over the next 74 months, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today.

The Nifty PSU banking index jumped 3.66 percent led by Bank of India which zoomed over 9 percent intraday on the back of recovery of Rs 7,000 crore from other banks. Punjab National Bank was up 4.3 percent while Andhra Bank zoomed over 5 percent.